The High Court of Madras has put on hold the implementation of the 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) in all-India pool seats in state medical colleges & asked the Centre to approach the Apex Court.
P. Wilson, the lawyer who fought the DMK’s contempt plea against the delay in the Centre’s implementation of the 2020 Madras High Court order against setting aside seats for the EWS category within the all-India poll, said the judgment would be applicable all over India.
Wilson said that “The judgment is not limited to Tamil Nadu. In no state can the EWS quota be implemented in the all-India pool seats".
An official in the Union Social Justice Ministry said the Centre was studying the judgment.
The bench of Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee & Justice P.D.
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Audikesavalu said in its order on Wednesday: “The inclusion of a further 10 per cent by way of vertical reservation for economically weaker sections would require the approval of the Supreme Court and, to such extent, the reservation for economically weaker sections as indicated in the (central) notification of July 29, 2021, has to be regarded as impermissible till such approval is obtained.”
Quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes & Other Backward Classes (OBCs) is referred to as vertical reservation.
The HC directed the Centre to go to the Top Court as the Supreme Court had set the quota formula related to the all-India pool seats.
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Under the all-India pool, 15% of seats are set aside in undergraduate courses & 50% in postgraduate courses.
The Central Govt had on July 29 decided to implement 27 per cent reservation for OBCs within the all-India pool & 10% for EWS students. However, Madras HC had on July 27 last year allowed the Centre to implement the OBC quota in the all-India pool & made no such provision for the EWS category.
Had the Centre’s move on the EWS been cleared, 550 students from the category would have benefitted in the MBBS course & 1,000 in the postgraduate courses.
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The all-India pool in state medical colleges was introduced in 1986 but did not have any reservation provision till 2007.
In 2007, the SC introduced a reservation of 15% for Scheduled Castes & 7.5& for Scheduled Tribes in this category. The Court agreed in principle to set aside seats for the OBCs within this pool from 2021-22 on a plea by Tamil Nadu parties last year.
“The notification of July 29, 2021, issued by the Union as a consequence of the (Madras High Court) order dated July 27, 2020, appears to be in order insofar as it provides for reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes & OBCs. The horizontal reservation provided in such notification for persons with disabilities also appears to be in accordance with law,” Wednesday’s Madras HC Judgment said.
Wilson, the advocate & DMK leader, said seats should have been reserved for OBCs too in the all-India pool in 2007 when the benefit was allowed to SCs & STs.
He said that “Such a quota would have benefited 56,000 OBC students (across India)".
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